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Books like Blade Runner Universe: 9 series to read next

Blade Runner Universe is science fiction and cyberpunk, about robots, set in near future, dark in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Blade Runner Universe is 6 books, 1968–2000.

“Together the two trace the story's path from prose original to screen and comic-page adaptation.”
from the catalogue description

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Sprawl Trilogy
Bridge Trilogy
Budayeen
Hardwired
Dogs of War (Adrian Tchaikovsky)
Divergent
A Clockwork Orange
Space Merchants
The Handmaid's Tale

Sprawl TrilogySeries

seriesWilliam Gibson & Terry Bisson10 books1981

About virtual reality.

“Johnny Mnemonic, an early short story set in the same fictional milieu, predates the novels and introduces the courier Molly Millions before her role in the trilogy.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Neuromancer →

Bridge TrilogySeries

seriesWilliam Gibson4 books1990

Science fiction and cyberpunk, set in near future and big city.

“Set in a near-future California, the novel takes place after an earthquake has damaged the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and turned it into an improvised settlement known as the Bridge.”
from the catalogue description of Virtual Light
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Start with Virtual Light →

BudayeenSeries

seriesGeorge Alec Effinger13 books1973

Set in middle east.

“Budayeen Nights, published after Effinger's death, gathers his shorter fiction set in the same neon-lit quarter.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The City on the Sand →

HardwiredSeries

seriesWalter Jon Williams3 books1986

Science fiction and cyberpunk, tense in tone, set in near future and our world.

“Voice of the Whirlwind, published three years later, is a loosely connected follow-up set in the same future, sharing its technological and political backdrop with a different cast of characters.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Hardwired →

Dogs of War (Adrian Tchaikovsky)Series

seriesAdrian Tchaikovsky3 books2017

Science fiction and cyberpunk, set in near future and our world.

“Dogs of War, Bear Head, and Bee Speaker widen from that first book's battlefield into questions of AI rights, corporate power, and non-human consciousness across a near-future Earth.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Dogs of War →

DivergentSeries

seriesVeronica Roth10 books2011

Start with The Transfer →

A Clockwork OrangeSeries

seriesAnthony Burgess4 books1962

Challenging in tone, about totalitarianism, set in british isles.

“After his crimes catch up with him, Alex is made the subject of a controversial state program meant to forcibly reform his behavior, and the novel uses his ordeal to question whether imposed goodness is worth the loss of free will.”
from the catalogue description

Start with A Clockwork Orange →

Space MerchantsSeries

seriesFrederik Pohl & C. M. Kornbluth2 books1953

About class conflict, set in venus & inner planets.

“Together the two books form a compact bookend pair rather than an ongoing series.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Space Merchants →

The Handmaid's TaleSeries

seriesMargaret Atwood3 books1985

About totalitarianism and gender and society.

“The Handmaid's Tale is Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel set in Gilead, a totalitarian theocracy that has overthrown the United States and forces fertile women into reproductive servitude as Handmaids; it is narrated by one such woman, Offred.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Handmaid's Tale →

Why these

No sales rank, no star ratings, no readers also bought.

Shared terms are not a promise that a book feels the same. Two series can be far-future political intrigue and read nothing alike — what the ranking can say is what they are about, and each card says which parts it shares.

Questions readers ask

What should I read after Blade Runner Universe?: Sprawl Trilogy — the closest match to Blade Runner Universe on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Blade Runner Universe?: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Blade Runner Universe.
How big is Blade Runner Universe?: Blade Runner Universe is 6 books, 1968–2000.

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